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V.O.E.L.C.B.

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It dawned on me fully today while working in an old holiday chalet circa 1940s.


The man in the next chalet was trying to use his old Black and Decker 1970s car boot sourced electric drill outside on the grass. He was making a wooden clothes hanger with wood and pegs. A jolly good job too.


I had had a quick look inside his chalet as he needs some new sockets. The  fuse box is an old cream coloured Wylex 6 way unit with fuse wire carriers. There is an old Crabtree V.O.E.L.C.B. installed before the fuse box.


As he worked in the garden drilling wood, it dawned on me that he had zero shock protection as he would if he had a R.C.C.B. installed.


It's strange how a picture speaks a thousand words.


Z.


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    The thing with ADS, VOELCBs, supplementary bonding, and RCDs, etc. is that they are unused for the vast majority of the time.


    During the first weekend leave of my training course, I had a shufti at my installation. I was a little surprised to find an RCBO board for the outbuildings. The RCBOs themselves had not been tested for a couple of decades (at least) and were dead as dodos. However, my lights came on and my motors went round and round so I was in blissful ignorance.


    First thing that I did on completion of my course was to change the defective DB, but because I am careful and take care of my property, and the installation was well made, no fault had ever developed. This is why the absence of RCD protection indoors does not frighten me. ?
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    The thing with ADS, VOELCBs, supplementary bonding, and RCDs, etc. is that they are unused for the vast majority of the time.


    During the first weekend leave of my training course, I had a shufti at my installation. I was a little surprised to find an RCBO board for the outbuildings. The RCBOs themselves had not been tested for a couple of decades (at least) and were dead as dodos. However, my lights came on and my motors went round and round so I was in blissful ignorance.


    First thing that I did on completion of my course was to change the defective DB, but because I am careful and take care of my property, and the installation was well made, no fault had ever developed. This is why the absence of RCD protection indoors does not frighten me. ?
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